Driver uses school bus to chase down repo man who removed his car from outside his house

A 44-year-old man from Tennessee is facing charges of reckless endangerment after giving chase to a repo man in a county school bus.

Greene County deputies arrested Leslie Calvin Henry on Thursday after he became upset his 2003 Saturn car had been repossessed from outside his house at 10.10 p.m. and used the full-sized school bus to pursue him.

Henry, who has been disciplined three times in the past has been 'suspended without pay' while Greene County director of schools, Dr. Vicki Kirk reviews his case.

Leslie Calvin Henry, 44, is charged with felony reckless endangerment after apparently using a school bus to pursue a man who just repossessed his personal vehicle

A little after ten last Thursday, deputies were informed by a representative of T&T Auto Sales that their staff were being followed by Henry in the school bus after they had taken ownership of his car - there were no children in the bus at the time.

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In a telephone call to authorities while he was being chased from Henry's Ragon Hallow address, T&T employee Paul Gray told deputies, 'Subjects from that residence got into a Greene County school bus and are now chasing them down the roadway.'

Leslie Calvin Henry used a full sized bus similar to the one pictured here for his chase last Thursday evening

Gray said that during the pursuit, the vehicles reached speeds of up to 35-40 mph, 'on the narrow side roads and continued to West Andrew Johnson Highway' according to the police report.

Henry is employed to drive students to Mosheim Elementary School and Dr. Kirk said that if the charges are upheld, Henry will be fired.

'Just a little bit unbelievable, but when you work with people all the time, you know that things happen that are not easily explained,' said Kirk to The Tennessean.

Henry transported Mosheim Elementary School (pictured) students on his regular route. He drove Bus 77

It has also been claimed that Henry has been in trouble with his employers on three occasions in the past.

With Greene County Schools on and off since 1996, Henry was been driving school buses since August 2008.

In November, 2010, Henry was suspended for three days for 'verbal disrespect of students' and in 2010, he was on the end of another three-day suspension for 'physically putting a child back in his seat.'

And in 1998, he received a letter of reprimand after a report that he crossed railroad tracks while a train was still on them.